W Series

Contracts were signed on a significant partnership but payments didn't follow, leading to CEO Catherine Bond Muir spending time in San Francisco trying to ...

“I nearly gave up (starting the series) twice because I’d worked so hard to try and raise the money and I didn’t think it was going to happen, and it was my husband who made me carry on. “The upside of it is that people have come out of the woodwork. America is a very important country and market for us — there would be countries that were less important than the U.S. “As a result we really want to get there because it is a very important race to us. Obviously in your head you’re making various contingencies, but I don’t really want to say what’s going to happen because I don’t know what the position is at the moment. Contracts were signed on a significant partnership but payments didn’t follow, leading to CEO Catherine Bond Muir spending time in San Francisco trying to rescue the deal.

W Series raced TRS's fleet of Tatuus FT-60 cars at Barcelona back in May, and will be utilising them once more in Singapore this weekend.

So, the turbo lag makes it quite enjoyable coming out of the corners. “It’s a very interesting car,” she said. But from my side it was getting in and adapting to what I had.

W Series CEO Catherine Bond Muir says a decision will need to be made by next week about if this season's final two races go ahead amid its financial ...

As the only mum in W Series, Emma Kimilainen has a different perspective than many of her rivals. The Williams F1 development driver has more than proven herself in the all-female series and has little to gain from returning. With two W Series titles under her belt, Jamie Chadwick appears to be the perfect candidate to break into FIA Formula 3.

The all-female championship was set to support F1 at the US and Mexico City Grands Prix at the end of October.

"We’re only in our third season. The series has pledged a cash prize of $500,000 if Chadwick, who would secure her third championship in a row after winning in 2019 and '21. We saw recently that England’s women flew economy to the World Cup where their male counterparts flew business.

W series has only days left to secure funding that will allow the all-female series to complete the current season, says CEO Catherine Bond Muir.

The series comes with significant prize money, but Bond Muir is less concerned about that being in jeopardy, adding: “That’s a longer period of time so I’m even more confident about that.” “The upside of it is that people have come out of the woodwork. I spoke to the drivers two days ago and it was a bit of a cry-in!

The series, which debuted in 2019 with the aim of getting a woman racer to Formula One, is in its third season and racing in Singapore this weekend where ...

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W Series CEO Catherine Bond Muir says a decision will need to be made by next week if this season's final two races will go ahead amid its financial ...

Jamie Chadwick successfully defended her W Series title as the series returned after a year out due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Heading into 2021, much of the discussion around W Series centred on Jamie Chadwick and her fight for a second crown. With two W Series titles under her belt, Jamie Chadwick appears to be the perfect candidate to break into FIA Formula 3.

W Series will decide next week whether it can finish its 2022 season after encountering a "slow train crash" of financial difficulties in recent weeks and ...

"But I think it's notjust a motorsport issue, I think it's a female in sport issue. I hope that the last few races will go ahead." "I am reasonably confident that that will happen.

W Series will decide next week whether it can finish its 2022 season after encountering a "slow train crash" of financial difficulties in recent weeks and ...

"But I think it's notjust a motorsport issue, I think it's a female in sport issue. I hope that the last few races will go ahead." "I am reasonably confident that that will happen.

The fate of W Series' final 2022 races will be decided next week after a loss of much-needed funding that CEO Catherine Bond Muir likened to a “slow train ...

“We pay to be on this platform. “And it was my husband who made me carry on. There was never any deal that they would come and bail us out.” So emphatically, yes.” “That is the upside of it, that people have come out of the woodwork and have realised that we were looking for funding in the way that we were,” she said. Because I believe that we’ll be able to raise the revenue to cover all of those costs.

The Telegraph reports that the series, in which only female drivers race at the wheel of Formula 3 cars during eight F1 race weekends, may collapse after this ...

She said: "You have to understand W Series is a brand new sport. "We've had to fight from day one," she said. Football is slowly starting to become more equal. We're only in our third season." "As great as the W Series is, it lacked the driving time and development that it needed," the 24-year-old Briton said. The report said W Series owes "significant sums" to creditors and may be unable to afford to attend the last two scheduled events in Austin and Mexico.

Jamie Chadwick set the pace in practice for the seventh race of the 2022 season as W Series made its debut in Asia.

The race is live on Sky Sports F1 at 09.35 BST on Sunday 2 October, with highlights on Channel 4 at 16.45 BST on Sunday 2 October. Jamie squeezed a quick one in at the end to show the class act that she is. It was so special to be able to drive under the lights, and when we went out first it was so cool. W Series uses identical Tatuus chassis to the Toyota Racing Series, but with different engines, and the cars being used in Singapore retain their Toyota engines. Toyota Gazoo Racing New Zealand (TGRNZ) is supporting W Series with the logistics required to get racing cars to F1 race weekends in the most sustainable way this year. That allowed team-mate Jessica to hit the front with 10 of the 30 minutes gone, when the session was red-flagged after When proceedings restarted, Alice regained top spot with just under a third of the session remaining when she became the first driver to dip below 2:15.000. [Nerea Martí](https://wseries.com/drivers/nerea-marti/). The ‘W’ on the nosecones of all 18 turned pink to mark the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this weekend. They were the only two drivers to get within a second of Jamie’s benchmark. The reigning double champion can win her third straight W Series championship title this weekend, and that bid got off to the perfect start in Singapore on Friday night. Jamie – who has won five of the six races so far this season – holds a 75-point lead at the top of the championship standings with four races remaining and a maximum 100 points to be won.

The final two races of the 2022 W Series season may not go ahead as the sport struggles to stay afloat following the pound's fall in value.

One of the sport’s main drawing points, as well as the promotion of female participation in motorsport, is the amount of prize money handed out each year. “You have to understand W Series is a brand new sport. Football is slowly starting to become more equal. We saw recently that England’s women flew economy to the World Cup where their male counterparts flew business. It has always been a struggle but we’re fighters. “We’ve had to fight from day one.

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This year, she’s been selected as the series’ official reserve driver and her call up this weekend is a perfect chance to go one better around Marina Bay. All eyes will also be focused on defending two-times champion, Jamie Chadwick, who is primed to wrap up her third consecutive title this weekend, with just Austin, Texas and Mexico City remaining. Visser finished the session in fifth place, 1.4s down on Chadwick’s best.